Don't see the problem or why so many people cry about it.Everything makes much more sense now and it's good to see that Death just hasn't done nothing all the time in contray to all other cosmics forces. Wouldn't make much sense, no?Death worked with manipulation, the Dreadlords fit in perfectly and are now finally more intimidating than before, where they just mainly instantly failed.To see how they had this giant network running with plans not going for winning every battle, but the actual war, it works so well.Zovaal isn't the super mastermind. Manipulation works by a) staying undiscovered, b) observe, c) push and pull a little to make things go in the direction you want them to. Especially when you got all time of the world, this can be small things and should be, because for succesful maniplation point A will also be the most important. Then even fails are no problem, you can just work with the new situation.Up to today I don't know a single person who could name a single real reason for the story to be 'bad', while I heared many who understand it very well. They cry 'retcon' but nothign was retconned. Everything still is as it was, there are simply more background infos, that's all. Cosmic power of Death isn't new, there was simply as little insight as into Light or Void for example, because you just could not visit the realms of these powers.The whole idea that the player should get the info about the manipulator - why? What's the point of this beside making the manipulation obvious? That's bad writing, when you do this. The whole point of manipulation is, to not be discovered, to make the manipulated people think, that they succeed in what they want to do, they want to have. It's absolute normal, that people don't know what's going on for real. How many people even know what's going on in their neighborhood alone? Or in the country they live? How many people know about the politics of their country - and what happens in the background. How many people know, how the corruption behind the curtains is running? For a fantasy story, the WoW lore is written pretty realistic and seeing how hard it is to tell a big story in an MMORPG (don't come with FF14, the story is shallow anime nonsense, where the player as the chosen one just wins by plot armor without ever even having to know anything or needing any kind of plan), even as somehow who was never much of a fan of Blizzard and Warcraft, I just have to admit, that they put a lot of well working effort into this.It's just absurd, how people spit on that and in the end just sad, how most of them seem to be unable to understand simple fiction. I mean, you really don't have to be super smart or educated to get it, and still...But most of the time it just seem, that people love to spit on something, that's all they really need and want.